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6. Venture capital as a tool for regional development: Exit patterns and long-term consequences
Sammanfattning : Venture capital (VC) funded high-tech startups are often cited drivers of economic impact and catalysts of regional growth. Public support of high-tech startups and investments into venture capital has thus been a popular focus for public policy globally in the past decades. LÄS MER
7. Essays on commitment and inefficiency in political economy
Sammanfattning : This dissertation is devoted to the analysis of various aspects of inefficiency in the political economy. It consists of four self-containing theoretical essays. The first two chapters deal with the interplay between inefficiency and commitment. Chapter 1 studies the problem of commitment in autocratic regimes and its implications for growth. LÄS MER
8. Herrskapen och den lokala politiken : Eds socken, ca 1650–1900
Sammanfattning : This thesis focuses on the local gentry (herrskapen) in a rural parish, just north of the Swedish capital of Stockholm, in the years 1650–1900. During this period, Sweden was transformed from a traditional agrarian society into an industrial state. LÄS MER
9. The young, the wealthy, and the restless : Trans-national capitalist elite formation in post-apartheid Johannesburg
Sammanfattning : Contemporary economic landscapes are particularly active with mergers, acquisitions, bankruptcies, and corporate takeovers, and the set of managerial elite who are in decision making positions are inextricably connected to these events. In this thesis I offer an anthropological perspective of these dynamics by considering the possible connection between processes of trans- national capitalist elite formation and identification, and larger transformations in the global system. LÄS MER
10. Playing the Matching Game : An Institutional Analysis of Executive Recruitment and Selection in Software Start-ups: Silicon Valley and Stockholm
Sammanfattning : Software start-ups make media headlines daily, suggesting that it may take only a garage and two engineering students to begin such companies, and that these same people will constitute the core of the executive team until these organizations become multinational giants. Despite these spontaneous starts, newly formed entrepreneurial ventures have many obstacles to overcome in their resource and cultural environments when establishing their practices. LÄS MER